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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Expenditure (22 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 982. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the amount of money which has been paid each year since 2008, to private companies for contracted laundry services for a hospital (details supplied) in County Donegal; the projected savings, for each of these years of having these services carried out by the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Expenditure (22 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 983. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown, of the total staff numbers, including details of their positions, employed at a hospital (details supplied) in County Donegal each year since 2008; the number of agency staff who have been employed at the hospital during this period as well as the number who are employed directly by the Health Service...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (22 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 1448. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of areas that have bans on rent allowance applications and the building of Part V obligations; and when these bans will be lifted given the need for social housing build. [31341/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Legal Cases Data (22 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 1625. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the bodies or companies from which he received legal advice in relation to a company (details supplied) since January 2014; and in each case to list the fees paid to date. [31546/15]

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat agus fáilte. Can I ask you just in relation to your own role, you have been cited as the person responsible for the design of Ireland's bailout programme? Is that accurate and, if not, then who designed Ireland's bailout programme?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay, thank you. Mr. Cardiff, when he came before the committee in relation to the troika negotiations, said: And for the most part it was [a] negotiation between people with a more or less common view of the world. We might have differences of view, for example, on fiscal policy or on economic adjustments, but in truth the differences were small enough. Would you agree or disagree with...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. I want to discuss the Government's four-year plan that you've referenced, which was published on 24 November 2010. If I can refer back to Mr. Cardiff's statement, he talks about this plan and the troika, and he says: When the Government finally agreed the text we handed it then to the Troika; one of the IMF team was told to work through the night to produce a report [of] the Plan by...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Chopra, we know that during the period of the implementation of the plan ... and you mention yourself, for example, that the plan didn't achieve the Government entering the markets on time, as it was expected, that the bank recapitalisation was in excess of what was initially expected, but a buffer was there. And also, the growth rates over the period of the implementation of the plan...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. In page 3 of your statement you succinctly put it in terms of what is crisis management and what needs to be done, and we have heard this from other witnesses, what is at the core of it, from other witnesses who appeared before ... or at least a witness who has appeared before this inquiry. And you say: "For effective crisis management it is important to recognize past mistakes,...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Can I ask you what role did you have? And do you believe it was fair that the allocated losses that were identified, which stemmed from the banking crisis were placed on the burden of the taxpayers of this country?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So was it fair? That was the question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh, agus fáilte roimh an Aire chuig an choiste. Minister, given the deficiencies highlighted in the Wright report, do you believe that the Department of Finance now has the skill sets and expertise to produce reliable economic forecasting and relevant and timely advice on important matters?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: So how do you believe ... how do you view the advice and analysis that you are receiving from your Department, ranking it against the ... your European peers? And what's your assessment of the capacity to evaluate policy alternatives and risks internally without the need to engage external consultants now?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Let's take the conversation you had with Deputy Higgins in terms of your conversation with Mr. Trichet where he pointed out, as you say, you were taken aback or you were stunned a wee bit at this, which was his reference to the Irish financial service centre and not being able to get funding.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Can I just finish, sorry?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Sorry, I need to ask the question.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: I need to ask the question. In relation to what Mr. Trichet said in relation to the Irish financial service centre, was there advice provided to the ... by the Department to you for the Government decision that covered this area or not?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Was there advice given on that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Was he ... was Mr. Trichet right?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)

Pearse Doherty: Did you seek advice afterwards?